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 Tip·toe n.; pl. Tiptoes  The end, or tip, of the toe.
    He must . . . stand on his typtoon [tiptoes].   --Chaucer.
    Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by.   --Spenser.
 To be a tiptoe, To stand a tiptoe, To stand on tiptoe or To be on tiptoe, to be awake or alive to anything; to be roused; to be eager or alert; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation.